Top Ten Tuesday: Thanksgiving Freebie–UPDATED

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New favorite use of leftovers

Photo and recipe by Cookin Canuck

Cookin’ Canuck’s Turkey Soup (Instant Pot or Stovetop)

Healthy Instant Pot Turkey Soup. Filled with fresh herbs and flavor

Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes  Cook Time: 8 minutes minutes  Pressure Cooker Wait Time: 25 minutes minutes  Total Time: 50 minutes minutes  Servings: 6 Servings Author: Dara Michalski | Cookin’ Canuck

Ingredients

• 2 teaspoons olive oil
• ½ yellow onion chopped
• 2 large carrots cut into half-circles
• 2 large celery stalks chopped
• 3 garlic cloves minced
• 1 tablespoon minced fresh sage
• 1 tablespoon minced fresh rosemary
• 1 tablespoon minced fresh thyme
• ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
• ¼ teaspoon ground pepper
• 7 cups turkey or chicken broth
• 2 cups uncooked egg noodles
• 1 pound chopped cooked turkey (or chicken) mix of light & dark meat (4 cups)
• 3 tablespoons minced flat-leaf parsley

Instructions

Instant Pot Instructions:

• Set the Instant Pot to Saute mode. Add the olive oil. Stir in the onions and cook until starting to soften, 3 to 4 minutes.
• Add the carrots and celery, and cook until the vegetables are starting to soften, 2 to 3 minutes.
• Stir in the garlic, sage, rosemary, thyme, salt and pepper. Cook for 1 minute.
• Add the turkey or chicken broth. Set the Instant Pot to High pressure on Manual mode. Reduce the time to 5 minutes. It will take about 15 minutes to come to pressure.
• Once the time expires, let the pressure release naturally for 10 minutes. Release the pressure manually.
• Press the Saute button. Once the broth is boiling, add the egg noodles and chopped turkey. Cook until the noodles are tender, about 6 minutes.
• Turn off the Instant Pot and stir in the parsley. Serve.

Stovetop Instructions:

• Heat the olive oil in a large nonstick saucepan. Add the onion and cook until starting to soften, 3 to 4 minutes.
• Add the carrots and celery, and cook until the vegetables are starting to soften, 2 to 3 minutes.
• Stir in the garlic, sage, rosemary, thyme, salt and pepper. Cook for 1 minute.
• Add the turkey or chicken broth. Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer. Simmer for 15 minutes.
• Turn up the heat so that the soup is boiling gently. Stir in the egg noodles and chopped turkey. Cook until the noodles are tender, 6 to 7 minutes.
• Remove from the heat and stir in the parsley.

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This post was first published on November 29, 2019. It was updated with new tips and text on November 10, 2021.

The Old

What to eat with the Macy’s Parade?

This a new tradition I’ve shared with my Mom and my kids if we manage to all get up time. These wonderful pumpkin scones.

My favorite Thanksgiving memory?

Making dressing (stuffing) with my Dad. It was the only thing he ever did in the kitchen.

My Worst Thanksgiving Memory?

My uncle and aunt’s neighbor, Mrs. Murray, constantly saying “You can take all you want, but you must eat all you take,” to those of use at the kids’ table.

My Other Worst Thanksgiving Memory?

Creepy old Grandmother Fry, who was not actually my relative (my Mom’s cousins’ “other” grandmother) but who scared the you-know-what out of me! Years later her grandson told me she did the same to him.

Thanksgiving Fact

Photo source: Campbells

I’m the only member of my family who will touch green bean casserole. It’s best made in an old aqua Pyrex casserole dish that no one remembers ever had a lid. Aunt Betty or someone brings it every year. We never had enough aunts for that and my Mom wouldn’t serve anything with Campbell’s Cream of Crap soup in it. She served us plenty of Chicken Noodle Soup and my Dad ate his weight in Bean and Bacon, but we never had Green Bean Casserole.

Favorite Thanksgiving mementos?

My daughter’s first and second grade Thanksgiving creations.

Most Fun I Ever Had on Thanksgiving

Attending the 1973 Indiana University — Purdue University Old Oaken Bucket football game.

At that time I was decked out in a fashionably long black and gold scarf to root for Purdue–my parents, aunt and uncle, and grandfather’s school. In seven years, I would enroll at I.U. due to my inability to cope with anything involving math! It was a lot of fun.

Favorite Thanksgiving T.V. Shows

The Bob Newhart: An American Family

The original Bob Newhart Show, season 3, episode 11, “An American Family” when his mother manages to insult everyone and everything. I still love this show.

Friends: Ross’s Sandwich with “the moist maker”

Ross’s Sandwich with “the moist maker”

WKRP “With God as My Witness I Thought Turkey’s Could Fly”

Garfield’s Thanksgiving with wonderful Grandma!

The Mouse on the Mayflower–cheesy? What else would a mouse dressed as a Pilgrim be? Politically incorrect? Yes! But no one was woke in my childhood.

Thanksgiving Food Item I Hated as a Kid and Still Hate

Photo credit: iStock

Marshmallows on canned Sweet Potatoes. I don’t mind the sweet potatoes, it’s the marshmallows.

Thanksgiving Food You Like Best

Photo Credit: Betty Crocker

I’m a freak! I love the giblet gravy. I don’t really like eating those giblets, but cut up in gravy they are great. Sick, I know. I put it on the potatoes and the turkey and the dressing!

Best Thanksgiving Story of All Time?

I still know nearly every word. Most years at least a few radio stations broadcast it.

Bonus: Favorite Turkey Leftovers Meal

Photo source: Spidy Southern Kitchen–their recipe is just as great! I love any version of this!

This is MY recipe. No soup.

We NEVER had this as kids. My Mom didn’t make casseroles because my Dad wouldn’t touch them! I love this. I love this with elastic-waist pants love it!

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